EMILYs List Endorses Governor Janet Mills for Reelection

For Immediate Release
February 4, 2021

EMILYs List Endorses Governor Janet Mills for Reelection 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Governor Janet Mills for reelection in Maine. Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“EMILYs List is thrilled to endorse Governor Janet Mills, a trailblazer and champion for women with a remarkable record of public service. The first and only woman to serve as Maine’s attorney general and the first woman to serve as the state’s governor, Janet has paved the way for countless women leaders. A lifelong Mainer who earned more votes than any governor in the state’s history, Janet understands the challenges Mainers face and she is committed to addressing them head on. Janet is a champion for affordable health care, women, and working families, and EMILYs List is proud to stand with her.” 

Governor Janet Mills is an experienced leader and an outstanding public servant running for reelection to continue fighting for Maine working families. She prosecuted major crimes as an assistant attorney general and co-founded the Maine Women’s Lobby to give vulnerable women who had survived domestic violence a powerful voice in the state legislature. When Janet stepped up to run for office for the first time, she made history as the first woman to serve as a district attorney in all of New England. She went on to successfully run for the Maine House of Representatives and served as a powerful champion for Maine working families. Janet was elected Maine’s attorney general in 2008 and is the first and only woman ever to hold that office. Maine had never before elected a woman governor until Janet became the first in 2018. 

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect pro-choice Democratic women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 157 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.